“We are disturbed by the incident where a 9-year-old boy unintentionally shot and wounded a 14-year-old girl in the back with a .22 caliber rifle he found in his parents’ Brooklyn apartment on March 20."

Our hearts are with the grieving family and friends of Veronica Rutledge, the young mother unintentionally shot and killed by her 2-year-old son on December 30, during a routine shopping trip to a Walmart in Hayden, Idaho.

Today, at the American Public Health Association’s national conference in New Orleans, Dan Gross, President of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, spoke about the need to change the way we think about the guns in our communities and in our homes as part of a public health approach to reduce gun violence.